Business/Financial Desk

G. Richard Wagoner Jr., who became the youngest chief executive of General Motors last Thursday, said at the company's annual meeting here today that he planned to maintain the current business strategies and he expected that new truck models and an emphasis on Internet marketing would lift the G.M. market share.

June 7, 2000technologyNews

Business/Financial Desk

The naming of G. Richard Wagoner Jr. today as the president and chief operating officer of the General Motors Corporation shows how the world's largest corporation is changing -- and how it is not. In an industry that still views gray hair as a prerequisite for serious responsibility, Mr. Wagoner is a brown-haired 45-year-old. Mr. Wagoner made his reputation not in G.M.'s established markets in North America and Western Europe but in its highly successful Brazilian subsidiary.

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